Sanitary guard for water-closet seats.



H. MULLER.

SANITARY GUARD FOR WATER CLOSET SEATS. APPLICATION min FEB. 26. m5.

Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

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WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY MULLER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JACOB BERNHARD, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SANITARY GUARD FOR WATER-CLOSET SEATS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

' Application filed February 26, 1915-. Serial No. 10,672.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, HENRY MfiLLER,a c t-1- zen 0f the United-States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Sanitary Guard for Water-Closet Seats, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device adapted to be placed on the seat of a water closet bowl for guarding the body of the occupant of the seat from disease and filthiness that would be occasioned by and would exist on said seat.

To this end the invention consists in forming such device of a sheet or piece of paper and providing the same with a member that may constitute a tongueto'be dropped into said bowl and adapting it to be extendedso as to make said sheet or piece longer than the original length of the same, whereby said tongue may present an increased length of surface which is subjected'to the action of the flush water thereon, whereby when the seat is unoccupied the entire device will be drawn down into the bowl and so disposed of through the soil pipe. I

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing,.but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, as long as they are included in the scope of the claim.

Figure 1 represents a plan view of a sanitary guard for a water closet seat embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section thereof in operative condition in a bowl which also is in vertical section. Fig.

- 3 represents avertical section on line :v:v

Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents a top view thereof on a reduced scale. Fig.6 view of a modification.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the guard the same being formed of a piece or sheet of paper or other suitable material in which is the longitudinally-extending tongue 2 which is formed by making incisions in the piece, in the present case, of the form of perforations on the lines 3 and 4, thus adaptingthe tongue to be separated to that extent from the piece leaving the end 5 of the tongue opposite to the incision 4 connected with said piece and comprising a hinge for the tongue by which it may drop from the portion of the piece or sheet at said represents a top 4 end 5. The portions of the piece or sheet on the side of the tongue are cut through, in the present case, in the form of perforations on the lines 6 and 7, which form the supple mental tongues '8-8 which remain connected 4 with the free end of the tongue 2 at the places 99 which places constitute hinges for said tongues 8, whereby the latter may be turned outwardly from the sides of the free end of the tongues, as shown in dotted lines Fig. l, by which provision the piece is made of greater length than in its original condition.

When the rim 10 of the piece is placed on the rim of the seat, the tongues 2 and 8 are dropped into the bowl, when the tongue 2 will depend from the rim 10 and dip into the Water and the tongues 8 will extend from the lower end of the tongue 2 in somewhat horizontal position so as to float on the sealing water usual in the bowl. The'location of the tongues provide the opening of the bowl, below the opening of the seat for the necessities of the case. As soon as the flushing is occasioned and the occupant of the seat rises the water of flushing carries with it first the tongues 8. This drags the tongue with them and the latter drags the rim from the seat, and thus the entire device is pulled into the bowl and dashed out of the same with the water into the soil pipe, thus completely disposing of the device, it being evi dent that the tongues 8 in a flat or comparatively nut condition was subjected to the full power of the running water whereby the tongue 3 is caused"to follow the same, and with it the rim which was loose on the seat.

It is evident that sheets of the kind may be placed one on the other in bundles or inserted in a slot machine to be paid by a coin if so desired, so that when one sheet is in hand the tongues may be pushed out of the sheet on the lines of the perforations unless Having thus described my invention what tongues integral with opposite sides of the I claim as new and deslre to secure by Letextremitypf said main tongue to extend, in

ters l atent, is use, beyond the extremity of the latter.

In asanitary guard for a watei closet seat, HENRY MULLER 5 a piece of pliable material having an open- Wit ing therein, a main tongue extending from JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM,

the wall of said opening, and supplemental 7N. BUssINeER. 

